SRC APPRO Vcu
STATE RECORDS COMMITTEE MEETING
January 10, 2001
STATE CAPITOL BUILDING
SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Members Present:
Legal Counsel:
Others in Attendance:
Betsy Ross, State Auditor's Office
Brian Winterowd, Private Sector Records Manager
Mark Fuellenbach, News Media Representative
Max Evans, State History
Cherie Willis, Citizen Representative, Committee Chair
Jeff Johnson, Governor's Designee
Judy Bell, Political Subdivision Representative
Mark Burns, Attorney General's Office
Eric A. Stene, Executive Secretary
Rick Francom, State Archives
Stephanie Griffith, State Archives
J. Gordon Daines III, State Archives
George Brown, Attorney for Jess Green
Jess Green, Plaintiff
Kevin Bennett, American Fork City Attorney
Cynthia Evans, Public
Wilson Martin, State History
The meeting was called to order at 1:00 P.M. The first order of business was an appeal
hearing Jess Green vs American Fork City. Mr. Brown opened for Jess Green. Mr.
Brown stated that Jess Green had requested a document faxed to attorney Kathryn
Collard from a fax machine located in the American Fork Police department that he
believed was a first draft of the Webber report. Mr. Brown then detailed the reasons
that Mr. Green wanted to obtain the document and his rationale for believing the
document should be public.
Mr. Bennett opened for American Fork City. Mr. Bennett stated that the appeal
concerned two separate sets of documents-the document faxed to Ms. Collard and
documents sent from Ms. Collard to various defendants in a federal lawsuit. Mr.
Bennett affirmed American Fork City's position that the documents do not exist and that
even if they existed, the fact that they were sent from a public fax does not make them
public documents.
Mr. Brown presented evidence for Jess Green. Mr. Green was called as a witness. Mr.
Green gave some background about his difficulties and conflicts with the American Fork
City Police Department. He also discussed an investigation of the American Fork City
Police Department and his belief that the first draft of the investigative report (hereafter
the Webber report) contained information about himself and his minor children. He then